32nd week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
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20140222490 | IDENTIFYING DIRECT AND INDIRECT COST OF A DISRUPTION OF A RESOURCE - A method and associated systems for automatically identifying critical resources in an organization. An organization creates a model of the dependencies between pairs of resource types, wherein that model describes how the organization's projects and services are affected when a resource type becomes unavailable. This model may include a system of directed graphs. This model may be used to automatically identify a resource type as critical if unacceptable cost is incurred by resuming projects and services rendered infeasible when the resource type is disrupted. The model may also be used to automatically identify a first resource type as critical for a second resource type when disruption of the first resource type forces the available capacity of the second resource type to fall below a threshold value. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222491 | Systems and Methods for Determining Pack Allocations - Systems and methods are provided for determining a distribution of each of a plurality of inner packs to a plurality of stores. Mismatch cost data and product demand data are received for the plurality of stores. A first inner pack quantity for distribution is determined based on the product demand data. A supply difference amount is determined, where the supply difference amount is a difference between the first inner pack quantity and the number of first inner packs available for distribution. A determination is made that adjusting the first inner pack quantity for the particular store based on the supply difference amount would have less effect on mismatch costs than other stores, and the first inner pack quantity is adjusted for the particular store based on the supply difference. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222492 | Alpha-Chain Constraints For Process Planning - A method is provided that includes receiving process-related information describing a process for production of a product, including a logical sequence of tasks to produce respective internal products of the process. The method also includes constructing a schedule for the process based on the process-related information, with the process schedule being for execution of at least some of the tasks each of which utilizes or requires inputs including temporally a last input. Construction of the process schedule includes separating each of at least some of the respective tasks into a closure portion that requires availability of the last input of its task before being initiated, and a distinct precursor portion capable of being initiated before the respective last input is available. The closure portions of the respective tasks may be temporally sequenced without intervening precursor portions, and the precursor portions may be prepended to respective, temporally-sequenced closure portions. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222493 | PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A system, method, and computer-readable medium storing instructions for managing workflows including a business logic layer including (a) a workflow creator configured to define a unified workflow by combining steps of at least two workflows, the unified workflow having associated workflow data including (i) step data associated with each of the steps, the step data including track data that associates each of the steps with a track, and (ii) a business rule, the workflow data having been imported from a non-uniform data format and converted to a uniform data format, (b) a business rules engine configured to select and apply the business rule to the workflow data, and (c) a workflow manager configured to manage the unified workflow based on the selected and applied business rules; and a presentation layer configured to output information regarding the managed unified workflow to a display medium. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222494 | DYNAMIC WORKFLOW APPROVALS - A dynamic approval system, capable of integration with enterprise software systems, where approval requests are generated from within application programs and processed using one or more dynamic approval rules comprising discrete rule steps and step criteria. For each approval request, only those rule steps applicable to the requestor and type of request are processed. Individual rule steps may be reordered, added or skipped, as appropriate, during an approval process. Typical rule steps include at least one request for approval or review. The party receiving the request may be a specific individual, a person holding a specific position, or a person having a relative relationship, such as supervisor, with the requestor. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222495 | DYNAMIC WORKFLOW APPROVALS - A dynamic approval system, capable of integration with enterprise software systems, where approval requests are generated from within application programs and processed using one or more dynamic approval rules comprising discrete rule steps and step criteria. For each approval request, only those rule steps applicable to the requestor and type of request are processed. Individual rule steps may be reordered, added or skipped, as appropriate, during an approval process. Typical rule steps include at least one request for approval or review. The party receiving the request may be a specific individual, a person holding a specific position, or a person having a relative relationship, such as supervisor, with the requestor. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222496 | DETERMINING COST AND RISK ASSOCIATED WITH ASSETS OF AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT - A computer determines the cost and risk of assets. The computer analyzes an asset signature, associated with an asset representing a fundamental structural unit of an information technology environment, to determine that the asset is in a non-normal state. The computer determines the cost of the asset by evaluating a price formula associated with the asset signature of the asset, and the computer determines the risk of the asset by evaluating a risk formula associated with the asset signature of the asset. The computer maintains a configuration item for the asset, indicating the state, the risk, and the cost of the asset. One or both of the risk and the cost of the asset are used to determine the priority of recovering the asset. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222497 | DETECTING PATTERNS THAT INCREASE THE RISK OF LATE DELIVERY OF A SOFTWARE PROJECT - Historic and current development data associated with the project may be gathered. A catalog of patterns, each pattern associated with a data measure and an analysis routine capable of detecting the pattern according to the data measure in a given data set may be obtained. A pattern describes a particular indication in the historical and development data, which arises one or more of, at a discrete point in time or over a period of time. The analysis routine may be applied to the historic and current development data. A notification may be issued responsive to identifying the pattern in the historic and current development data. The applying and the issuing may be performed for each pattern in the catalog of patterns. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222498 | System And Method For Determining Loss Data Based On Industry Indices - Systems and methods for evaluating basis risk associated with index based security instruments. The systems and methods calculating an element factor for each of a plurality of elements based on a modeled company loss for a plurality of events and an industry loss for the plurality of events, calculating a company loss for each element based on the element factor and an industry loss for each of the corresponding elements for each of a plurality of events, comparing the company loss for each element to the modeled company loss for each element for each of the events, wherein the comparing occurs within a layer of interest to determine a basis risk for each of the events and outputting a monetary value of the basis risk for each of the events based on each of the elements. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222499 | System and method of integrating plurality of customer care service centers for registering and tracking customer requests using one single platform - The present invention provides a system and method of integrating plurality of customer care service centers for registering and tracking customer requests using one single platform to address products or service related issues with the customers. The system acts as a single point of contact for the customers to register and track complaints or issues with multiple customer care service centers of various products or service providers which are owned and used by the customer. The system completely eliminates the manual intervention at the back end i.e. on the customer care service centre during the time of registering a new complaint. The invention provides automation of raising/tracking complaints for multiple services provided to the customer by multiple service providers and avoids manual intervention from the customer care service centers where a customer care representative comes in to log a complaint or provide details for an existing complaint. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222500 | Consolidating Leads into a Lead Group - In some example embodiments, a system and method are illustrated to consolidate leads received from multiple user devices used by a single user. The system and method may include identifying a first plurality of leads received from one or more user devices as being submitted by a same user via the one or more user devices. The first plurality of leads may be directed to a listing provided by a lister. The first plurality of leads may be added to a lead group. Then, a second plurality of leads received from one or more users including the same user may be forwarded to the lister. The forwarding may include notifying the lister of a first count of the second plurality of leads. The first count may include the lead group counted as one lead. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222501 | CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS DEVICE, CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS METHOD - A customer behavior analysis device includes: a tracking unit configured to track persons moving in an area around a self-service area where items are provided for self-service, based on image information provided by an imaging device capturing images of the area around the self-service area; a detection unit configured to obtain, based on a result of tracking performed by the tracking unit, a moving direction of each person relative to an access area, which a customer needs to enter to choose and pick up items from the self-service area, and a staying time of the person in the access area, and to detect non-completing persons who gave up completing self-service action based on the moving direction and the staying time; and an output information generation unit configured to generate output information representing a result of analysis based on a result of detection performed by the detection unit. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222502 | DETECTION OF EXIT BEHAVIOR OF AN INTERNET USER - Use action in the form of movement of a tracking device on a webpage, represented by cursor gestures on the webpage, is used to detect it a user intends to leave the webpage. Upon detection of an intent to leave the webpage, an advertisement may be displayed to a use. The advertisement may be targeted to the user and/or based on the content the user was viewing on the webpage. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222503 | DYNAMIC PREDICTION OF ONLINE SHOPPER'S INTENT USING A COMBINATION OF PREDICTION MODELS - Online browsing behavior is used to predict the intent of online users dynamically. The category of online user is predicted and the prediction can be used to provide assistance to the user, if required. Such prediction is based on a combination of a Naïve's Bayes classifier and a Markov model. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222504 | ELECTRONIC DATA SHARING DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE - A method of enabling selected users to share contact information, comprising the steps of: an issuing entity issuing, electronic data sharing devices that are either free, subsidized, or bundled with other products or services to a plurality of selected users for the purposes of sharing user related information, wherein the user related information is shared a) between two or more of the users, between one or more of the users and the issuing entity, or with other parties authorized by the users or entity, and b) based on a preliminary, user-to-user initiated, exchange of data between two or more of the electronic data sharing devices or one or more of the electronic data sharing devices and a static or mobile hub configured to operate in the same manner as an electronic data sharing device; a server retrieving the exchanged data from the electronic devices, and providing the exchanged data to the issuing entity to enable the issuing entity to perform one or more of the following steps: i) identify the user related data associated with the users; ii) match users with users they exchanged data with; iii) analyze the user related data to determine one or more of: demographic information associated with the users; network inter-relationships of users; networking trends. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222505 | Generating a User Profile - An example method for generating a user profile for a user based on a static profile and a dynamic profile of the user includes compressing dynamic rules into aggregated rules for validation. The dynamic rules associated with a particular user are matched to one or more validated aggregated rules to generate the dynamic profile for that user. The static profile for the user is generated for the user based on factual user information and historical transactional data for the user. The static and dynamic profile are then combined to form the user profile. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222506 | CONSUMER FINANCIAL BEHAVIOR MODEL GENERATED BASED ON HISTORICAL TEMPORAL SPENDING DATA TO PREDICT FUTURE SPENDING BY INDIVIDUALS - A method for selecting a next action includes reading transaction data, determining insights and relationships between a first entity and a second entity from the collected transaction data. Once these relationships and insights have been determined, the possibility of a future event occurring in one of a number of selected time periods can be determined using a predictive time-to-event component. A system for selecting a next action includes a memory for storing transaction data, an insight/relationship determination module, and a predictive time-to-event module. The memory, the insight/relationship determination module and the predictive time-to-event module carry out the above method. A programmable media having an instruction set can also cause a machine to carry out the above method. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222507 | Process and System for Integrating Information from Disparate Databases for Purposes of Predicting Consumer Behavior - A process and system for integrating information stored in at least two disparate databases. The stored information includes consumer transactional information. According to the process and system, at least one qualitative variable which is common to each database is identified, and then transformed into one or more quantitative variables. The consumer transactional information in each database is then converted into converted information in terms of the quantitative variables. Thereafter, an integrated database is formed for predicting consumer behavior by combining the converted information from the disparate databases. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222508 | DATA EDITING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A device for generating a user interface for sales planning includes a data display generation unit configured to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) for an external device, the GUI including a data display area for displaying product sales data for a plurality of items that are included in a selected sales plan, the data display area having a first field that is editable and a second field that displays predicted sales data values which are updated when the first field is edited, a data aggregation unit configured to aggregate product sales data of the plurality of items, and a prediction calculation unit configured to calculate the predicted sales data values and update the predicted sales data values when the first field is edited, based on the product sales data for the plurality of items that have been aggregated in the data aggregation unit. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222509 | DATA EDITING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A device for generating a user interface for sales planning includes a data display generation unit configured to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) for an external device, the GUI including a data display area for displaying product sales data for a plurality of items that are included in a selected sales plan, the product sales data including predicted sales data values for a first store and one or more additional stores, a data aggregation unit configured to aggregate product sales data of the plurality of items for the first store and the additional stores, and a prediction calculation unit configured to calculate the predicted sales data values for the first store and the additional stores based on the product sales data for the plurality of items that have been aggregated in the data aggregation unit. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222510 | Lighting Infrastructure and Revenue Model - Methods, devices, and systems for implementing lighting infrastructure application frameworks and networks and associated revenue models. In one embodiment, a computing device may receive a request from a first device to access data from a lighting infrastructure application framework, and the data from the lighting infrastructure application framework may include data from lighting node platform(s). In an embodiment, the computing device may perform authorizations related to providing access to data, as well as transmit responses to requests for data. Costs and revenues associated with applications may also be performed based on usage of platforms, sensors, and controllers within a lighting infrastructure. In an embodiment, software, applications, and other instructions may be transmitted by a computing device in response to receiving requests. In another embodiment, a computing device may process received data (e.g., sensor data from lighting node platforms) to detect trends or events relevant to applications. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222511 | MEASURING CUSTOMER INTEREST TO FORECAST PRODUCT CONSUMPTION - Customer activity (especially activity on Internet web sites) is monitored in correspondence to a product or other entity, in order to enable a forecast of future “consumption” of the product or entity. (Consumption may be the sale, rental, use, viewing or interest in the product or other entity.) First, the monitoring method includes gathering activity information that characterizes the activity of the customers with reference to the entity. Then, the gathered activity information is mapped to a psychographic profile that represents a level of interest of the customers as a function of corresponding phases of a consumption cycle. Finally, the mapped activity information as well as control information (which may include product metadata, customer data, product contextual data) are processed to formulate the forecast of future consumption of the entity. The “product” being monitored may be a physical product, an electronic product such as a computer game or downloadable file, an abstract concept, or a group or category of any of these products. Because the customer activity can be measured and analyzed in near real time, product consumption forecasts are quickly delivered; and use of the control information increases the effective intelligence of the mapping and processing processes, rendering more accurate product consumption forecasts. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222512 | RECEIVING, TRACKING AND ANALYZING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DATA - Receiving, tracking, and analyzing business intelligence data. In one embodiment, for example, a computer-implemented method comprises: a feedback intermediary obtaining, from a user's computing device, the user's selection of an entity to provide feedback on; the feedback intermediary causing the user to be prompted at the user's computing device to provide feedback on the entity; the feedback intermediary obtaining feedback on the entity from the user's computing device; and providing the user's feedback on the entity to a computing device associated with the entity. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222513 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING POLLING IN A TELEPHONE BASED PLATFORM - Disclosed is a method for providing polls or surveys to users in the midst of a communication between a device and a server. The method includes establishing a communication between a device associated with a user and a server, receiving data about the user, based on the data, presenting a survey to the user during the communication between the device and the server to yield survey data and processing the survey data. Survey can be chosen based on the program the user is listening to as well as personal user data such that targeted personalized surveys can be offered that are likely to be taken by the user during the communication. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222514 | Graphical User Interface for Collecting Explicit and Non-Explicit Information in Electronic Surveys - A system for conducting electronic surveys comprises a processing device coupled to a network. The processing device is configured to provide a graphical user interface (“GUI”) defining an electronic survey. The GUI defines a survey page comprising a first region including a plurality of different objects selectable by a user taking the survey. The GUI also defines a second region defining a first portion assigned a first relative rating on a rating scale and a second portion assigned a second relative rating, for selective placement of objects from the first region by the user. The GUI provides data related to the placement of each object into the first and second portions by the user, while continuing to display each selection on the same survey page. The processing device also derives explicit and non-explicit information related to the placement of respective objects. A method and GUI are also disclosed. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222515 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS - Systems and methods for providing geodemographic analyses using a unique weighting, centering and scaling approach for intensive variables is provided in a principal components analysis. The system may use an extensive variable as a size parameter that is appropriate for the particular geodemographic application. Additionally, a sizing function may be applied to the determined principal components before a clustering analysis. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222516 | CONTENT PROVISIONING AND REVENUE DISBURSEMENT - A method for provisioning content to users, including for each of a plurality of items of media content, maintaining information about one or more owners of the item of media content, and maintaining information about one or more providers of the item of media content, for each of a plurality of users, maintaining information about items of media content acquired by the user and about player devices owned by the user, for each of a plurality of time periods, maintaining a history log of items of media content played by one or more of the plurality of users during the time period, receiving a request from a user to play a designated item of media content on a designated player device, during a current time period, identifying an appropriate provider of the designated item of media content, according to a location of the user and according to the designated player device, causing the identified provider of the designated item of media content to transmit the designated item of media content to the user's designated player device, updating the history log for the current time period to reflect the user having played the designated item of media content, and calculating revenue disbursement among the owners of the plurality of items of media content, and the providers of the plurality of media content, for the current time period, based on the history log of the current time period. A system is also described and claimed. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222517 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETAL-TIME PRICING ON CONSUMABLE ITEMS IN REATIL EMBODIMENTS - The present invention provides a dynamic computing system, comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having encoded thereon computer executable instructions for providing pricing information to a requester via a presentation layer, a valuation engine comprised of computing code capable of executing rules that generate at least one value for at least one food item responsive to at least the supply information and customer information accessed from at least one network, and a data layer capable of receiving at least the supply information and the customer information, and communicatively connected to said valuation engine, and further comprising food offering information for the requester for presentation to the requester via said presentation layer, wherein the food offering information comprises at least one offer price for the at least one food item. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222518 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SETTING OPTIMAL HOTEL PROPERTY PRICES - A method and system for setting the optimal price for a hotel property are described. The method includes the steps of receiving electronic data having marketing information, including, for example, the customers won and lost by competitors. One or more price sensitivity coefficients are calculated based on the market data. The price sensitivity coefficients are used to calculate a predicted share value representing the probability that a next customer will book a property at the subject hotel at a particular price. The price sensitivity coefficients are also used to calculate a price elasticity value representing the responsiveness of demand for the hotel property to a change in the price of that property. The price of the hotel property is set at a point where the price elasticity value is substantially equal to −1.0. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222519 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE ANALYSIS OF PRICING DATA INCLUDING PRICING FLEXIBILITY FOR VEHICLES AND OTHER COMMODITIES - Embodiments disclosed herein can provide consumers with an effective tool for evaluating the negotiability of prices for vehicles in the marketplace. The tool may include a negotiability index which determines flexibility in vehicle pricing. Specifically, a method may obtain data from multiple sets of vehicle models, construct a price flexibility model to estimate an average price range for each set of models, determine a negotiability index using the average price range, and generate an interface to present the negotiability index. In one embodiment, the price flexibility model incorporates a plurality of factors. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222520 | MANAGING CUSTOMER CHANGE REQUESTS - Techniques for managing customer change requests include receiving a change request associated with a business project of a business enterprise, the change request including one or more parameters; comparing the one or more parameters with one or more business rules associated with the business enterprise; based on the comparison, determining that at least one of the one or more of the parameters satisfies at least one of the one or more business rules; in response to the determination, generating one or more requests for approval for the change request; receiving one or more approval responses from one or more entities associated with the business enterprise in response to the one or more requests for approval; and in response to receiving the one or more approval responses, updating a property associated with the business project. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222521 | INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT AND COMPLIANCE VERIFICATION IN DISTRIBUTED WORK FLOW ENVIRONMENTS - Techniques for intelligently monitoring and verifying compliance in a distributed work environment. Sensors are configured to collect various data, including human behavioral data, related to the distributed work environment. A rules engine correlates the human behavioral data with other types of data collected from sensors, and analyzes the aggregate data to determine compliance with a set of standards. Other types of data may include machine data, biological and environmental data, logistical data, and operational data. The standards may include governmental regulations, industry standards, and company specifications. The rules engine estimates a current and/or future status of a parameter of the distributed work environment, and determines whether the parameter status satisfies the standards. If the rules engine detects non-compliance and/or potential non-compliance, it generates alerts and/or remediation instructions, and/or automatically implements corrective action(s) to resolve the non-compliance using machine-to-machine interactions. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222522 | INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT AND COMPLIANCE VERIFICATION IN DISTRIBUTED WORK FLOW ENVIRONMENTS - Techniques for intelligently monitoring and verifying compliance in a distributed work environment. Sensors are configured to collect various data, including human behavioral data, related to the distributed work environment. A rules engine correlates the human behavioral data with other types of data collected from sensors, and analyzes the aggregate data to determine compliance with a set of standards. Other types of data may include machine data, biological and environmental data, logistical data, and operational data. The standards may include governmental regulations, industry standards, and company specifications. The rules engine estimates a current and/or future status of a parameter of the distributed work environment, and determines whether the parameter status satisfies the standards. If the rules engine detects non-compliance and/or potential non-compliance, it generates alerts and/or remediation instructions, and/or automatically implements corrective action(s) to resolve the non-compliance using machine-to-machine interactions. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222523 | TECHNIQUES FOR BUSINESS PROCESS DRIVEN SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) GOVERNANCE - Certain example embodiments tie the business process governance and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance processes together through the use of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) and Event Driven Architecture (EDA) based messaging. That is, in certain example embodiments, a BPMN agent integrated into a SOA registry and publish/subscribe agents deployed to the SOA registry and a business process engine are used to bring the business and SOA governances together through an EDA that helps generate relevant messages from a BPMN model representing the various governance mechanisms. Advantageously, a Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine and business analytics modules may provide monitoring and feedback to both parts of the overall architecture. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222524 | Challenge Ranking Based on User Reputation in Social Network and ECommerce Ratings - A network-based rating system provides a mechanism whereby users can submit and rate challenges in a challenge processing step and submit and rank ideas in an idea processing step that correspond to the challenges in the challenge processing step. The highest rated challenge is determined in the challenge processing step and is then submitted to users in an idea processing step. Alternatively, challenges submitted by users in the challenge processing step are submitted to users for ideas in the idea processing step on an ongoing basis. In these alternative embodiments, the challenge rated in the idea processing step is a challenge other than the highest rated challenge determined in the challenge processing step. In another embodiment, the users rating challenges are the same users rating ideas in the idea processing step and in other embodiments the users are not the same as those rating ideas in the idea processing step. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222525 | RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) DATA COLLECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS AND RETURN ON INVESTMENT PROCESSING OF RFID DATA COLLECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) simulator system is provided. The RFID simulator system includes a processor effective to receive first data representing a pre-existing system for tracking of objects; simulate an RFID system having at least one RFID reader, at least one RFID antenna, and a plurality of objects connected to RFID tags; simulate a path of the objects; simulate an RFID system environment to produce second data representing simulated RFID tracking of the objects; and compare first data and second data to generate third data; and at least one memory effective to store at least one of the first data, the second data and the third data. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222526 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTING HEALTHCARE-PROVIDER PERFORMANCE - A system and method for augmenting healthcare-provider performance employs a head-mounted computing device that includes camera and microphones to capture a patient encounter and events immediately before and after: video, dictation and dialog. Wearing the device by the provider during the encounter permits normal interaction between provider and patient, encouraging the provider to maintain focus on the patient. An “ears-open” earpiece delivers audio data from a remote location without obstructing the ear canal. Augmented reality multimedia is displayed via a heads-up display over the eye(s). Real-time capture of audio and video enables dramatic cost reductions by saving doctor time. Using the system, a doctor no longer need spend hours daily on transcription and EHR entry. A patient encounter is captured and transmitted to a remote station. Relevant parts of the encounter are saved or streamed, and updates to an EHR are entered for provider confirmation after the patient encounter. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222527 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR OIL AND GAS BENCHMARKING - Implementations described and claimed herein address the foregoing problems, among others, by providing apparatuses, systems, and methods for correlating aggregated production and revenue data with aggregated cost and expense data. In one implementation, a dataset corresponding to a plurality of producing wells is received. The dataset includes revenue and production data and expense and cost data. The revenue and production data is aggregated. The revenue and production data is aggregated for a subset of the plurality of producing wells. The subset corresponds to one or more geographical locations. The cost and expense data is aggregated. The cost and expense data is aggregated for the subset. The aggregated revenue and production data and the aggregated cost and expense data is anonymized to remove proprietary and confidential information. The anonymized revenue and production data with the anonymized cost and expense data is correlated based on a production date range. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222528 | SEGREGATION OF CHAT SESSIONS BASED ON USER QUERY - Embodiments of the invention relate to chat and, more particularly, to determining an that is to be action taken based on the type of chat session. The resolution of the chat is categorized to decide the necessary steps taken and also to monitor the agent's performance. A chat filter extracts relevant portions of a chat session. The relevant factors are taken into consideration and scored based on the feature vectors. A model is built and the type of resolution is determined. An analysis of the chat session is then performed taking into consideration several factors. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222529 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ONLINE MARKETING WITH CONSUMER PARTICIPATION - A method and system comprise communicating with a computer system configured to host marketing media from at least one producer and marketing expert. Marketing media is received for a product to be viewed by a consumer. The marketing media comprises a solicitation for an advertising contest. At least one consumer media is produced by the consumer in response to the solicitation. The system stores the consumer media in a first database for approval by the producer and marketing expert. An approval of the consumer media is received for further approval by the consumer for public viewing. The approval by the consumer for public viewing is transferred to the system. The approved consumer media is stored in a second database viewable and searchable by the public. Viewing of the consumer media at least in part determines an outcome of the advertising contest. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222530 | PROGRAM HAVING A CONSUMER VALUE SCORE | 2014-08-07 |
20140222531 | System and Method for providing a Location-Based Social Network - A location based social network and methods of making and using same. A method according to one embodiment includes configuring an event profile via an event administrator device, where the event profile is associated with an event location and includes at least one location venue. The method also includes configuring an event venue profile via a first venue device, where the event venue profile is associated with a location venue and is configurable via the event administrator device. The method further includes presenting an event interface at an attendee device, where the event interface is defined by the event profile and the event venue profile. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222532 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECTING AND INSTRUCTING CUSTOMERS TO DEAL WITH SPECIFIC MERCHANTS USING INCENTIVES - A buyer-seller matching system that uses incentives to verify commissions from matching the buyer with a seller. An item locator system that comprises a repository of information about items for purchase may be provided over a network for users to access information about items for purchase. Along with each item, the system presents an incentive that may be realized if that item is purchased from a designated third party seller. The user then executes the purchase with the seller, who pays the system the agreed upon fee and also issues a certification of purchase to the buyer. The user may then take the certification of purchase back to the central repository to redeem the incentive. The item locator system then checks to verify that it has received a fee or commission from the seller for bringing the seller a buyer of the item. The fee or commission may be based on the price of the item, such as if the item is a new house for sale and the seller is a new house builder. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222533 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO USE TRANSACTION AUTHORIZATION COMMUNICATIONS TO PROCESS INDIVIDUALIZED OFFERS - An individualized price offer is associated with the account information of a user in a data warehouse coupled with a transaction handler of a payment processing network. If the individualized price offer is applicable for a pre-authorization of a purchase, information about the price offer is communicated to a transaction terminal via an authorization response for the pre-authorization. The transaction terminal is configured to adjust the published price in accordance with the information about the price offer such that the user is presented with an individualized price at the transaction terminal before the user starts receiving the product or service. After the purchase, the transaction terminal computes the transaction amount according to the individualized price and request clearing and settlement of the transaction according to the transaction amount computed according to the individualized price. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222534 | MOBILE CONTENT CREATION, SHARING, AND COMMERCE IN A GEO-SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT - A method, apparatus, and system of a mobile content creation, sharing, and commerce in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes communicating a positioning data of the mobile device to a server at a periodic interval, automatically generating in the mobile device, in response to the server, a present location profile associated with a present geographic location of the mobile device, simultaneously generating, in the mobile device, a set of adjacent profiles provided by the server as being a direction away from the present geographic location of the mobile device and refreshing, in the mobile device, the present location profile and the set of adjacent profiles at the periodic interval. The method may include automatically attaching a present sense data in the present location profile when a user selects a capture function in the present location profile. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222535 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CARD MARKETING USING EXPENDITURE DETAILS OF AN INDIVIDUAL - The present invention relates to a method and a system for card marketing which collect benefit information about member stores of various financial cards, such as credit and debit cards, used for payment from all of the affiliated card companies and manage the collected benefit information, calculate the quantity of benefits for each card with respect to expenditure details of a financial card, cash, and banking of an individual in each member store without discriminating a company's own card from cards from other companies and recommend an optimum card having the largest benefits, and connect the card benefit information to an advertisement or induce the individual to be issued a new card, thereby effectively accomplishing card marketing. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222536 | UNLOCKING COUPON OFFERS - In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving an indication that a user selected social network data that is displayed, on a client device, concurrently with offer data that indicates a coupon offer; wherein prior to receiving the indication, the user of the client device is incapable of accessing the coupon offer; in response to receiving the indication that the user selected the social network data, allowing the user to access the coupon offer, and causing a message to be sent to each user of a plurality of users that are identified, in a social network, as connected to the user, wherein the message includes data about the coupon offer or a coupon provider that initiated the coupon offer; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222537 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing system includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire pieces of first information for a plurality of services to which a user has subscribed, respectively, each piece of first information containing reduction terms for reducing a fee for the corresponding service; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire pieces of second information for the services, respectively, each piece of second information indicating a usage of the corresponding service; a determination unit configured to determine whether a value according to the piece of second information corresponding to the service satisfies the reduction terms for each of the services; and a processor configured to perform a process for reducing the fee for the service on each of the services when the services include a service for which it is determined that the value according to the piece of second information satisfies the reduction terms. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222538 | CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT FOR AN ORGANIZATION - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for customer experience management for an organization. Embodiments of the invention can be used to monitor and analyze customer activity. From larger volumes of data, data can be concentrated to identify events with higher relevance to customer or guest experiences with the organization. Data can be correlated with customer or guest experiences to provide more personalized experiences in the future. Embodiments include event processing rules. Event processing rules can be used to provide more intelligent rewards to customers or guests. Event processing rules can also be used to synthesize other events. Embodiments can apply data analytics at a range of organizational levels (e.g., operator to management level) to improve customer or guest experiences. Embodiments can provide visualizations to an organization to present correlated trend data about customers or guests. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222539 | CUSTOMER LOYALTY SYSTEM - A customer loyalty method including receiving transaction information associated with a transaction between a customer and a merchant, determining, in accordance with a set of predefined loyalty benefit rules associated with the merchant, a loyalty benefit associated with the transaction information, associating the loyalty benefit with a transaction identifier, receiving the transaction identifier from the customer, and crediting, to an account associated with the customer and in association with the merchant, the loyalty benefit associated with the transaction identifier received from the customer. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222540 | PLATFORM FOR LOYALTY SERVICES - A platform for a loyalty program provides an interface allowing a consumer to create a benefit tailored for his/her needs. In one embodiment, a consumer accesses the platform via a web-based interface, and selects benefit/reward parameters including but not limited to the nature of the event triggering award of the benefit, the source (i.e. retailer) of the benefit, the nature of the benefit (i.e., discount based upon purchase price or accumulated loyalty points), and/or the events allowing accrual of loyalty points. The interface communicates the inputted parameter to an engine of the loyalty program. The platform would then check the inputted parameter against any constraints, such as parameters of an existing loyalty program in which the consumer is already enrolled. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222541 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VALUE ALLOCATION EXCHANGE - A value allocation brokerage and exchange system. In one embodiment, the value allocation brokerage and exchange system comprises a broker server used to buy and sell points over the Internet. The broker system is operably coupled to a local area network over a communications link. The local area network includes a database server hosted by a database host, with the database server maintaining a database of recent Internet point transactions. The broker server receives requests from users to exchange points with respect to a plurality of potential point systems. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222542 | Method and system for electronic exchange of reward points - A system and method for operating a reward points accumulation and redemption program wherein a user earns rewards from a plurality of independent reward issuing entities, with each tracking the user's earned rewards. A trading server accumulates some or all of the user's earned rewards from the reward servers and credits the accumulated rewards into a single reward exchange account associated with the user. The user may then select an item for purchase with the accumulated rewards. The item is provided to the user in exchange for a subset or all of the rewards. Reward points may also be redeemed in exchange for services, such as the playing of a video game or Internet access. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222543 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, DISPLAY METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - A use history that at least associates a use subject identifier for identifying a user or a terminal device a user has used with a used item identifier, which is an item identifier for identifying an item used by a user, based on use information is stored in a use history storage section. Based on the use history, a degree of similarity between two item identifiers is calculated and using the degree of similarity, associated data causing a base item identifier, which is an item identifier of a base item, and an associated item identifier, which is an item identifier of an associated item similar to the base item to correspond to each other is created. A change value to change a point value managed for each use subject identifier is calculated. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222544 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Distributing Digital Media - Digital media is distributed to a list of subscriber addresses. The digital media is stored in a memory of a client device that is dedicated to content offered by a producer. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222545 | METHOD OF ENHANCING POINT-OF-SALE SYSTEMS - A method of operating a point-of-sale (POS) system ( | 2014-08-07 |
20140222546 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING TRANSACTIONS WITH A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and system include verifying credentials for gaming access to a transactional controller with the portable computing device. The transactional controller may receive a merchant identifier corresponding to a merchant and then it may compare the merchant identifier against loyalty account data stored in a database. The transactional controller may also receive product scan data and compare the product scan data against one of offer data and coupon data in a database. After these comparisons, any matches of product scan data, to offer data or coupon data may be sent to the PCD and the POS controller. Similarly, any matches of the merchant identifier to loyalty account data may be transmitted to the POS controller. During or after the purchase transaction, a message may be generated by the transaction, controller which lists one or more preferred payment options that may be selected using the PCD to complete a purchase. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222547 | PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATION RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON USER INFORMATION FROM A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system requests a customizable product from a retailer. The retailer accesses social information associated with one or more additional users connected to the social networking system users and generates recommendations for options to customize the customizable product based on the social information associated with the additional users. When the social networking system orders a customizable product using one of the recommended options, the social networking system is notified and generates a story describing the purchase that is communicated to the additional users of the social networking system. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222548 | Inverse Referral Systems and Methods - A system for providing and measuring consumers' product referrals and recommendations about any given product or business, while allowing the consumers to acknowledge who or what influenced their purchase decision (i.e., an inverse referral). As a result the system verifies the purchases in a trending match and builds trend networks of consumers that bought products or services as a result of the referral. The system generates a trending score of the referral source as an indicator of the level of influence each user has in commerce, wherein the trending score measures personal influence in commerce in terms of resulting influenced purchases. The trending score may be used to distribute referral rewards throughout the system. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222549 | Measuring Television Advertisement Exposure Rate and Effectiveness - In one embodiment, a social networking system models a number of exposures to an advertisement for a concept for a set of users, sample from the set of users attitudinal data toward the concept, and determine effectiveness of the advertisement by evaluating the attitudinal data against the number of exposures to the advertisement. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222550 | Advertising with Video Ad Creatives - The serving of advertisements with (e.g., on) video documents may be improved in a number of ways. For example, a system may (a) accept information defining at least one ad spot associated with at least one instance of an video document, (b) accept offers to have advertisements served in the ad spot(s), and (c) arbitrate among competing advertisements, using at least the offers, to determine at least one advertisement to be served in that ad spot(s). As another example, a system may (a) accept relevance information for an advertisement, (b) determine at least one video document using the accepted relevance information, (c) present information about the video document(s) to an advertiser associated with the advertisement, and (d) accept, from the advertiser, an offer to have its advertisement served with at least one of the video document(s) accepted. As yet another example, a system may (a) accept relevance information for an video document, (b) determine a plurality of advertisements relevant to the video document using the relevance information and serving constraints of the advertisements, and (c) select at least one of the determined relevant advertisements to be served with the video document. Examples of video documents include video files published on the Internet, television programs, live or recorded talk shows, video-voice mail, segments of an video conversation, etc. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222551 | ADVERTISING TRACKING AND ALERT SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for tracking advertising information and alerting advertisers are disclosed. Consumer activity responsive to first published content relating to an identified advertiser may be monitored. Based on the monitoring, advertisement events corresponding to instances of consumer activity may be identified. Sets of advertising information for the identified advertiser may be processed, the advertising information including information about the advertisement events. The sets of advertising information may be consolidated to form a composite set of advertising information for the identified advertiser. The composite set may be stored in a repository. Advertisement metrics of the composite set may be determined. Authenticated access may be enabled, to the identified advertiser via a network, to the composite set for the identified advertiser. The composite set may be presented via a dashboard view. Indication of the advertisement metrics may be caused, and the advertisement metrics may be presented in the dashboard view. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222552 | CREATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF REVEAL-BASED MODULAR ADVERTISING UNITS - Non-transitory computer-readable media, systems, apparatus, and computer-implemented methods are described herein for facilitation of generation and selective provision of a modular advertising unit over a plurality of communication channels to a plurality of end user computing devices. In various embodiments, the modular advertising unit comprising may include a first graphic configured to be operable by a user with an end user computing device to reveal, in place of at least a portion of the first graphic, a second graphic to the user. In various embodiments, the modular advertising unit may also include instructions configured to cause the end user computing device, in response to execution of the instructions by the end user computing device, to automatically provide a report, to the computing device or another computing device associated with an advertising entity, about operation of the first graphic. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222553 | Dynamic Website Campaign Builder for Merchandising - Dynamic website Campaign builder software for enabling merchandising via the Internet. The Campaign builder software has an application programming interface for display on programming computing devices with display screens to permit building a Campaign. Plural Campaign templates are retained in electronic memory, and an insertion mechanism, such as a Destination Script or an iFrame, permits insertion of assets into the Campaign template to create Campaigns. A saving mechanism permits selective saving of Campaigns, and a publishing mechanism permits selective publication of Campaigns, including with fixed width and responsive design templates. A recipient user interface is operative on recipient computing devices with display screens to permit viewing and usage of published Campaigns. Campaigns are saved to content delivery network (CDN) Media Cloud Server storage for rapid CDN publishing. A linking mechanism permits a linking of Campaigns to an Analytic program for harvesting and analysis of user interaction and Ecommerce data. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222554 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADVERTISING ON CONTENT-SCREENED WEB PAGES - According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method is provided for advertising on a content-screened web page. The method includes receiving an impression request for a URL for which an advertising impression is desired; screening HTML content of a web page identified by the URL; generating a rating for the URL based on the HTML content of the web page; assigning the rating to the impression request; and serving an advertising impression on the web page based on the rating. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222555 | Social Revenue Management Method - A system and method of social revenue management is disclosed. A member of an online social network reveals a commercial offer from a third party to their social network. The offer is customized and endorsed by the first user and typically includes details such as the price. A customization app obtained from a party outside the social network is used to create the offer. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222556 | SCORING USERS OF NETWORK BASED SERVICES - Methods, systems and computer program products for evaluating a score for a particular user of network-based services. In one method, advertisements are provides on webpage(s) of the user. The webpage(s) may include content generated by the user. Advertising revenue generated by the webpage(s) is calculated and a score is assigned to the user based on the calculated advertising revenue. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222557 | Wirelessly Preprocessing a Transaction While in a Queue - A transaction is preprocessed wirelessly in response to a wireless transaction preprocessing user device being in a queue for a point-of-transaction. The transaction that was preprocessed is then completed in response to the wireless transaction preprocessing user device reaching the point-of-transaction. Financial transactions and/or purchase of goods and/or services may thereby be preprocessed wirelessly and then completed at a point-of-transaction. Related devices and computer program products are also disclosed. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222558 | FACILITATING ELECTRONIC COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT - Techniques are disclosed for facilitating electronic commerce in an augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting, by a mobile device, presence of the physical product or the real life service; and presenting, on the mobile device, information to conduct the transaction of a physical product or a real life service via the augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting one or more targets in the augmented reality platform using a select area in a perspective of a user, the perspective being captured by a mobile device; and prompting the user to choose an object of interest from the one or more detected targets. Among other advantages, embodiments disclosed herein provide an intuitive and integrated user experience in shopping using augmented reality devices, thereby reducing the consumer user's effort in conducting such activities, reducing necessary sales personnel and their working hours, and increasing sales. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222559 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CUSTOMER LEVEL TRANSACTION ANALYTICS ACROSS MERCHANT SITES - A method for reporting a consumer profile includes: storing offline financial transaction data involving at least two merchants, each transaction associated with a consumer; receiving an information request, the request including a consumer identifier; identifying browsing information associated with the consumer; analyzing the browsing information and the transactions associated with the consumer to identify a profile; and transmitting the profile to a merchant. A method for displaying a customized web page includes: storing browsing data associated with a consumer; receiving a web page request; identifying the consumer identifier; transmitting an information request, the request including the consumer identifier; receiving offline transaction information for transactions involving the consumer and at least two merchants; analyzing the browsing data and the transaction information to identify a profile; customizing the web page data based on the profile; and transmitting the customized web page data to the consumer for display. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONETIZATION IN PHOTO SHARING SITES - Disclosed is a system and method for selecting and serving advertisements in response to requests for photos on a photo-sharing website. In some embodiments, the present disclosure describes a system and method for automatically matching an advertisement with a media file when the media file has been rendered by a user. Aspects of the present disclosure allow for automatic selection and serving of advertisements based on a requested media file and/or user profile information, potentially without any interaction between the user and the advertiser. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222561 | Cross-Platform Advertisement Targeting - An online system, such as a social networking system, enables targeted advertising to its users across platforms, such as mobile applications, desktop browsers, and mobile browsers. The online system stores interactions with advertisements or other content from multiple platforms with a user identifier. When an advertisement request is received including the user identifier, the stored interactions associated with the user identifier are retrieved, allowing an advertisement to be selected based on user interactions through various platforms. This improves advertisement delivery, such as advertisement retargeting, and conversion tracking. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222562 | LOCATION BASED DYNAMIC COUPONS - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for location based dynamic coupons are presented. In some embodiments, location information for a plurality of users in an area associated with the network based positioning system is determined. The location information may be analyzed using a set of rules associated with the area to create an offer associated with a location within the area. The offer may then be communicated to one or more users. In alternate embodiments, user density may be used to create offers for users, and the offers may be directed toward influencing users to move from a high user density location to a low user density location. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222563 | Solutions For Hedging Against Foreign-Exchange Currency Risk - A service providing affinity and rewards to consumers based on their spending abroad to leverage foreign exchange currency gains or losses is described. The service automates the process of exchange rate gain or loss on a product or product category basis. The service may provide marketer incentives to compensate for all or some portion of the currency exchange-based gain or loss, including automated incentive rewards. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222564 | GEO-LOCATED SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY RELATING TO EVENTS AND COMMERCE - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for geo-located social connectivity relating to people, events, and commerce. In general, embodiments of the invention provide a social commerce matching system. An intelligent interactive tool provides individuals the ability to geo-locate like-minded individuals/groups and participate in events. Individuals or businesses can generate events. Businesses can support events through advertising promotions, and deals. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SELLING PRODUCTS - A system and method of selling products is described, the method including the steps of: offering products for sale in a retail store; a person visiting the retail store; a person browsing the stock offered for sale; a person scanning the barcode on a product of interest to obtain additional product details; receiving indication information in an electronic form which identifies a person and at least one product that they are interested in purchasing; processing the indication information to determine a revised offer of sale; transmitting the revised offer of sale in an electronic form to the person. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222566 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A MEDIA ENHANCEMENT - The present invention is and includes a device, system and method for providing an image enhancement widget. The device, system and method include a javascript component that, upon execution, obtains at least one subject of primary content on a networked page, and at least one permission for enhancement of the primary content, ones of a plurality of content produced remotely from the javascript component and according to the javascript component, and an enhancement widget. The enhancement widget may be a flash widget. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222567 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION THROUGH COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION NETWORK SITES - Information pertaining to products made by manufacturers and sold to consumers through retailers, is distributed to consumers through a communication network that connects consumer communication nodes to a cooperative network site having an accumulation of information about manufacturer product offers and retailer special deals. A consumer can obtain selected items of this information without knowledge of how to reach the cooperative network site, by simply logging in to a manufacturer network site or to a retailer network site. At a manufacturer site, the consumer can obtain a list of local retailers carrying the manufacturer offers and can then select from among the offers and receive complete details of the selected offers. At a retailer site, the consumer can obtain a list of manufacturer offers available at the retailer stores in the consumer's area, and can then select from among the available offers and receive their complete details. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222568 | TARGETED ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION TO MOBILE DEVICES - A method and system are provided for presenting highly targeted advertisements to the user of a mobile device running an application which incorporates a Mobile Agent designed according to the disclosure. The Mobile Agent communicates with an advertising server that analyzes information received from the Mobile Agent, and selects advertisements for transmission to the Mobile Agent and presentation to the user. The disclosure uses the intended audiences of the available advertisements, the nature of the application, and the user's history of responses to previous advertisements to select advertisements that are likely to be considered useful by the user. The disclosure further uses information about the mobile device's position and its direction and speed of motion, and the locations of places of business associated with the available advertisements, to select advertisements for places of business that are proximate to the user's position, predicted destination, or predicted route. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222569 | COMMUNICATING A TARGETED MESSAGE TO A WIRELESS DEVICE BASED ON LOCATION AND TWO USER PROFILES - A method for tracking patronage of a customer in at least one casino property is described. The method comprises monitoring a wireless handset that determines the location of the customer. The method then proceeds to generate a user profile that comprises user preferences and monitored betting activity associated with the customer and accumulated points stored in a customer account according to a monetary value of the monitored betting activity. Complementary goods or services are determined based on the accumulated points associated with the customer account. A message is sent to the wireless handset associated with the complementary goods or services that is consistent with the user preferences. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222570 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product For Probabilistically Derived Predictive Location Based Targeted Promotion - An exemplary system, method, and/or computer program product may programmatically by computer processor(s) combine various exemplary data elements to create an analyzed and calculated predictive device location, categorized by time of day for one or more devices. The exemplary method may take in as input(s) exemplary passive data that results from geolocated communication events such as wireless voice calls, data sessions and/or wireless communications tower or network hotspot information. The inputs, according to an embodiment may be combined and enriched with exemplary Latitude/Longitude reference data to provide a location history for an exemplary device. Based on analysis of frequented locations and time periods, the detailed location history information for a device may be probability weighted (e.g., scored) to predict where the device will be, at a given future time, based on the given device's detailed location history, and exemplary time of day, e.g., morning, afternoon, night, etc. The information may be used to create targeted campaigns based on an predicted device location. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222571 | DIRECTING COMMUNICATIONS TO SEMANTIC BUNDLES OF LOCATIONS - A system and a computer-implemented method of serving online content items using a semantic description of a feature that is common to a plurality of online content locations are provided. The method includes assigning one or more identifications based on the semantic descriptions to each of the plurality of online content locations using one or more features associated with a respective one of the online content locations, receiving a selection of one or more of the assigned identifications and a physical location of the associated online content locations, determining at least one of a physical location of an online content recipient, and an intended location of the online content recipient, and transmitting an online content item to the online content recipient when the online content recipient is within a specified distance from any of the selected online content locations. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222572 | SERVER OFFERING SERVICE TARGETING USER AND SERVICE OFFERING METHOD THEREOF - A server for offering a service targeting a user and a service offering method thereof, the method including: collecting data from a plurality of user devices; determining a unit zone partitioned from a service zone based on geographic information; adjusting the unit zone based on the amount of data collectable according to the determined unit zones; performing modeling to parse the data collected according to the adjusted unit zones; and offering a service targeting a user of the unit zone, based on results from the modeling. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222573 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCRYPTING LOCATION BROADCASTS - The present disclosure provides a system and method for providing a user with supplemental content based on the user's preferences and location. The disclosure provides a computer program that allows users to discover and organize content from a platform that is accessible from a mobile device or computer. Additionally, the disclosure provides a system for determining a user's location while indoors. The system can associate the user's location with specific content or items in a store and provide the user with supplemental content related to those items. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222574 | PRESENCE DETECTION USING BLUETOOTH AND HYBRID-MODE TRANSMITTERS - Presence detection using Bluetooth and hybrid-mode transmitters is disclosed. In some embodiments, a transmitter is configured to broadcast a secure identifier comprising a venue identifier using Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE) and/or an ultrasonic audio channel. The secure identifier broadcast by the transmitter is captured by a handset and decoded to infer presence of the handset at a venue identified by the venue identifier. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222575 | PRESENTING COMMERCIAL OFFERS TO MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES BASED ON ACTIVITY OF MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE USERS - A computer-implemented method receiving receives information describing a current or future activity from a user of a computing system via a mobile device. The current activity is an activity occurring at a current time when the information is received, while the future activity is an activity occurring at a future time relative to a time when the information is received. The method transmits the information describing the current or future activity to a backend database coupled to the Internet and remote from the mobile device. The information describing the current or future activity is accessible to at least one recipient having access privilege to information associated with the user and describing the current or future activity via the Internet. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222576 | Interactive Personalized E-Experience System and Method for Visual Voice Mail - In-person shopping at brick-and-mortar locations can be facilitated using visual voicemail systems. A user device can be detected upon entry or proximity to a retail location and a greeting visual voicemail message can be transmitted to the user device. User data may be integrated into the greeting message. The greeting message can also include options for a user to activate that allow the integration of the virtual and physical shopping experience. Options can include requests for sales associate help, product information or location, associated service plans or accessories, etc. Multiple remote resources can be coordinated to service a user's requests via a visual voicemail system while the user is shopping in the retail location. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222577 | CAMPAIGN IN A GEO-SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT - A method, apparatus, and system of a campaign in a geo-spatial environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes populating each profile of a geo-spatial social network with an address data, forming a group in support of a campaign in the geo-spatial network when a particular user creates the group in support of the campaign and automatically communicating media to a physical location of a member of the group based on the address data associated with each profile of the geo-spatial network. The method may also include automatically creating the group based on a public data associated with each profile of the geo-spatial social network even prior to certain users associated with each profile registering geo-spatial social network by applying the public data to the each profile. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222578 | DIGITAL SIGNAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Generally, this disclosure describes a digital signage management system. The system may include a user device including processor circuitry coupled to communication circuitry, the communication circuitry configured to couple the user device to at least one of a digital sign and a management service, and the user device configured to manage display of user content on the digital sign, the user content configured to be displayed on the digital sign in a time slot. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222579 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a first advertisement management part configured to manage an output of first advertisement content from a first device, a second advertisement management part configured to manage an output of second advertisement content from a second device, the second device being different from the first device, the second advertisement content being related to the first advertisement content, and a linked output controller configured to control, based on first information acquired by the first advertisement management part from the first device and linked output setting information defining an operation of the second advertisement content in association with the first information, the output of the second advertisement content from the second device through the second advertisement management part. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222580 | DISCOVERING AN EVENT USING A PERSONAL PREFERENCE LIST AND PRESENTING MATCHING EVENTS TO A USER ON A DISPLAY - A user profile is used to assist a user in identifying events of interest and to provide context to users regarding events that matches user preferences. The user profile may be based on behaviors exhibited on a mobile device, on input by the user or on data on the mobile device. The user profile is analyzed to provide notification of events of interest to the user based upon the analysis of the user profile. The user profile may include anything that contributes to a state on the device. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222581 | Third-Party Sourcing Advertisements From A Social Networking System - A social networking system selects advertisements for presentation to its users on third-party websites. The social networking system receives a request for content from a widget or plug-in on the third-party website and provides content including one or more advertisements for presentation along with content from the third-party website. The third-party website may use revenue generated from users accessing advertisements presented via the social networking system to supplement or eliminate revenue from typical banner ads. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222582 | ADVERTISEMENT BIDDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for electronic advertisement bidding based on a plurality of electronic display devices mounted in at least two different categories of locations. The invention includes a server operable to receive from an advertiser a selection of one of the at least two different categories of locations. The invention further selectively display of advertising content only on the selected one of the at least two different categories of locations. An alternate location for advertisement space may be provided for displaying an advertisement that is associated with a losing bid. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222583 | DETERMINING VALUES FOR A CHARACTERISTIC OF AN ONLINE SYSTEM USER BASED ON A REFERENCE GROUP OF USERS - An online system predicts values of a target characteristic for users in a set of users based on a reference set of users having known values for the target characteristic. Using descriptive characteristics of users in the reference set of users and target characteristic values for users in the reference set, the online system generates a model predicting values of the target characteristic based on user descriptive characteristics. The online system applies a global constraint on the target characteristic when generating the model, so the model extrapolates from the reference data while achieving aggregate results for values of the target characteristic that are consistent with the global constraint. The global constraint may be obtained from census data or another suitable global aggregate survey. Using the global constraint in the model avoids inaccuracies in reporting of user metrics. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222584 | ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT METHOD - An advertisement distribution management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a detection unit, a storage unit, and an acceptance unit. The detection unit detects information on a wireless terminal which exists in a communication area of a wireless LAN access point and which satisfies a predetermined condition. The storage unit stores information on the wireless terminal detected by the detection unit and attribute information set to the wireless LAN access point in association with each other. The acceptance unit accepts an order request of an advertisement distribution that specifies the attribute information on the basis of the information on the wireless terminal stored in the storage unit in association with the specified attribute information. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222585 | NETWORK DEVICE AND NETWORK CONTROL DEVICE - An advertisement content posting system and method are disclosed. The advertisement content posting system may include a resource collecting unit to collect resources included in a particular domain and configured to post an advertisement content, a service providing unit to provide an advertiser with resource object information of the collected resources and resource relationship information between resources in a web service form, and a post unit to post the advertisement content through resources selected by the advertiser when a post request with respect to the advertisement content is received from the advertiser. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222586 | BID ADJUSTMENT SUGGESTIONS BASED ON DEVICE TYPE - Systems and methods for suggesting a bid adjustment value based on device type include receiving parameters for a third-party content provider's campaign to present third-party content on a first type of device. Based on the campaign's parameters, bids from peer providers that use similar campaign parameters for both the first type of device and another type of device may be identified. For example, bids from providers that use similar parameters as the campaign for both mobile and desktop devices may be identified. The identified bids from the peer providers may be used to calculate a bid adjustment value. The bid adjustment value can be provided for presentation to the third-party content provider as a suggested change to his or her bid for the first type of device, to establish a bid for the second type of device. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222587 | BID ADJUSTMENT SUGGESTIONS BASED ON DEVICE TYPE - Systems and methods for suggesting a bid adjustment value based on device type include receiving parameters for a third-party content provider's campaign to present third-party content on a first type of device. Based on the campaign's parameters, bids from peer providers that use similar campaign parameters for both the first type of device and another type of device may be identified. For example, bids from providers that use similar parameters as the campaign for both mobile and desktop devices may be identified. The identified bids from the peer providers may be used to calculate a bid adjustment value. The bid adjustment value can be provided for presentation to the third-party content provider as a suggested change to his or her bid for the first type of device, to establish a bid for the second type of device. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222588 | ADVERTISEMENT SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR ADVERTISEMENT SYSTEM, ADVERTISEMENT CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR ADVERTISEMENT CONTROL DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an advertisement system capable of selecting, for example, advertisements with a high bid price as advertisements to be shown in an advertisement area, without executing processing for sorting advertisements by a bid price as a key. A storage unit stores a bid price designated by an advertiser so as to be correlated to each of a plurality of advertisements that are candidates for the advertisements to be shown in the advertisement area set in content. A determination unit determines whether or not a bid price of an advertisement is higher than a threshold. An advertisement selection unit selects advertisements with a bid price higher than the threshold among the plurality of advertisement as the advertisements to be shown in the advertisement area, based on the result of determination by the determination unit. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222589 | System For And Method Of Automatic Optimizing Quantitative Business Objectives Of Sellers (Advertisers) With Synergistic Pricing, Promotions and Advertisements, While Simultaneously Minimizing Expenditures and Discovery and Optimizing Allocation Of Advertising Channels That Optimize Such Objectives - A system for and method of automatic optimizing quantitative business objectives of sellers (advertisers) with synergistic pricing, promotions and advertisements, while simultaneously minimizing expenditure and discovery and optimizing allocation of advertising channels that optimize such objectives. | 2014-08-07 |